Punu language
Yipunu also known as Yisira is a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Republic of Gabon and the Republic of Congo by several thousand people, mainly of the Punu and Ghisir ethnic groups, the largest of the four major ethnic groups in Gabon. Yipunu has about 120 thousand native speakers, mainly from the southern Region, including 8 thousand speakers in southern French Congo. It is classified as B.43 in the Guthrie classification.
| Punu | |
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| Bapunu | |
| Native to | Gabon, Republic of Congo |
| Region | Central Africa |
| Ethnicity | Punu |
Native speakers | 166,000 (2007)[1] |
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| ISO 639-3 | puu |
| Glottolog | punu1239 |
B.43[2] | |
Rimba is sometimes considered to be a dialect, but its lexicon is divergent.
See also
References
- Punu at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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